Breast Cancer is more then a pink ribbon in my family it is an inescapable reality.  I am a woman who has lost 37 women in my family and far to many pink sisters to this disease.  I am a woman who in my mid 30's was told that I would not live to see my 43rd birthday, who will be turning 57 this year on Day 2 of this walk.  I am a woman who had to hold my daughter's hand when she was 18 and explain to her that thanks to a genetic mutation BRCA1, which she inherited from me, there is an over 90% chance that she will battle this disease before her 40th birthday, she is turning 26 this year and planning her wedding.   I am a wife who was blessed with a husband who has traveled this journey by my side.  I am a woman, who thanks to the research and medications funded by Susan G. Komen is a voice for all of the pink angels who walk beside me every day.  I am a survivor living with metastatic breast cancer.  Living with metastatic breast cancer does not mean wearing pink-ribbons.  Those ribbons are representative of people's lives. 

Susan G. Komen is currently the only organization that is working with Stage 4 patients, women like me who live from scan to scan, lab to lab and surgery to surgery, praying hoping that remission is holding and praying for a cure.  We live in three-month gulps, grappling with pain, fatigue, depression, crippling medical costs and debilitating side effects of treatment, hoping the current therapy will keep the disease at bay until the next breakthrough drug comes along...and some are angels who gave all. And so we walk.

This August, with your help, I will walk 60 miles with my family and friends to help rid the world of this disease.  I am asking for your continued support.  There is no donation too small, so please consider donating what you can.  This walk is hard, but it is also inspiring.  It is not as hard as chemo, or radiation, or surgery or saying goodbye to those we love.  Your donation makes a difference and it is simple to do.  I am the living proof that this walk and those who support me truly matter and make a difference.

Please support me as I commit to an incredible challenge. The Susan G. Komen 3-Day is a 60-mile walk over the course of three days. It will be hard, but it’s not as hard as breast cancer. It’s not as hard as chemo. It’s not as hard as getting bad news at your latest scan. It’s not as hard as saying goodbye. And that’s why I know I have to do this. That’s why I’m walking and why I’m raising money – to end breast cancer forever.